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Navajo, language
(Encyclopedia)Navajo or Navaho, language belonging to the Athabascan branch of the Nadene linguistic family, or stock, of North America (including Mexico). See Native American languages. ...Pahlavi language
(Encyclopedia)Pahlavi language pāˈ– [key], member of the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Pahlavi is the form of the Persian language that followed Old Persi...Pehlevi language
(Encyclopedia)Pehlevi language: see Pahlavi language. ...manual language
(Encyclopedia)manual language: see sign language. ...Maori language
(Encyclopedia)Maori language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Malagasy language
(Encyclopedia)Malagasy language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Malay language
(Encyclopedia)Malay language: see Malayo-Polynesian languages. ...Armenian language
(Encyclopedia)Armenian language, member of the Thraco-Phrygian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-European). There is evidence that in ancient times a distinct subfamily of Indo-European l...Khalka language
(Encyclopedia)Khalka language: see Mongolian languages. ...language acquisition
(Encyclopedia)language acquisition, the process of learning a native or a second language. The acquisition of native languages is studied primarily by developmental psychologists and psycholinguists. Although how c...Browse by Subject
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